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# remain — English to French

How English *remain* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 2 translations with example sentences.

What it means: [remain in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/remain/).

Sentence pairs counted, by form: remain (108 606), remains (93 925). By style: everyday 253 · literary 47 · biblical 144 · parliamentary 16 220 · legal and administrative 13 449 · UN documents 172 418.

## reste

Used about 80 422 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 169 · literary ≈ 34 · biblical ≈ 23 · parliamentary ≈ 8 955 · legal and administrative ≈ 6 584 · UN documents ≈ 64 657). Forms: reste, restent, rester.

- It **remains** to be seen.
  Cela **reste** à voir.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and Micsmithel · checked, community translation · [\#10648315](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10648315) [\#10302912](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10302912))

- “The empty coffin **remains**.”
  --Il **reste** la bière vide.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 11720)

- It will happen that if ten men **remain** in one house, they will die.
  Et s’il **reste** dix hommes dans une maison, ils mourront.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · AMO 6:9)

- This **remains** an important point.
  Ceci **reste** un point important.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1023296)

- Nevertheless, the situation of the Union industry **remains** fragile.
  Néanmoins, la situation de l'industrie de l'Union **reste** fragile.
  ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 3636991)

## demeure

Used about 25 557 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 5 · biblical ≈ 40 · parliamentary ≈ 1 183 · legal and administrative ≈ 981 · UN documents ≈ 23 348).

- Despite all his setbacks, he **remains** an optimist.
  Malgré tous ses revers, il **demeure** optimiste.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by darinmex and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#676320](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/676320) [\#809025](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/809025))

- Yet to **remain** in the flesh is more needful for your sake.
  mais à cause de vous il est plus nécessaire que je **demeure** dans la chair.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PHI 1:24)

- The question is and **remains**: is it to the consumer's benefit?
  La question est et **demeure** la suivante: est-ce au profit du consommateur?
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1097397)

- It **remains** the foundation of an efficient energy market.
  Il **demeure** le fondement d'un marché de l'énergie efficient.
  ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 4964143)

- 86. The follow-up of those actions, however, **remains** unsatisfactory.
  86. Ce processus de suivi **demeure** cependant peu satisfaisant.
  ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 1488694)

## More sentences

Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out.

- In addition many groups have been formed so that the elderly can socialize with one another and **remain** active participants in American life.
  En plus, de nombreux groupes ont été créés afin que les personnes âgées puissent se rencontrer et continuer d'être des membres actifs de la vie américaine.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by shekitten and ahtapot · checked, community translation · [\#54000](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/54000) [\#1468114](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1468114))

- He's unstoppable right now but the question is how long he can **remain** at the pinnacle of his career.
  Rien ne semble l'arrêter à présent, mais on peut se demander combien de temps saura-t-il maintenir son élan.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by papabear and Micsmithel · checked, community translation · [\#282856](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/282856) [\#6831447](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6831447))

- He was not allowed to **remain** silent.
  Il ne lui était pas permis de se taire.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and nimfeo · checked, community translation · [\#304167](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/304167) [\#2229325](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2229325))

## Grammar

Notes on grammar and translation on Mova: [English grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/en/) · [French grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/fr/) · [translating between English and French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/pairs/en-fr/) · [translating from English](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/from-en/) · [translating into French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/into-fr/).

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